KLA Comnmander Remi Expels 220,000 Albanian Civilians

Columbia U. | Nov 1999 | Max Sinclair

[vooch]

Commander Remi began expelling Albanians from the Llap region once the international monitors pulled out. The sole intent of this strategy seems to have been to provoke a refugee crisis. Evidently, the KLA knew it could only rise to power through the maximum suffering of the very people it purported to be defending.

Chris Bird of the Guardian filed a story on Saturday March 20, 1999 which described how the KLA knocked on people's doors in Srbica telling them they had to "leave immediately, at one in the morning" as the UCK spread land mines throughout the village. The villagers then had to walk miles through a wind swept snowy night.

The tide of KLA induced refugees grew until it reached 160,000 as described by Lirak Qelaj. Qelaj acted in part as an information officer for Commander Remi and one of his jobs was to film the plight of displaced Albanian civilians with a video camera. Qelaj " disclosed that it was KLA advice, rather than Serbian deportations, which led some of the hundreds of thousands of Albanians to leave Kosovo" as reported by Jonathan Steele of the Guardian on June 30th.

In one episode, around 160,000 displaced people were stranded near the village of Kolic on the east side of the Pristina-Podujevo road. Qelaj said the UCK " urged the people to go on to the main road and start walking to Pristina." note: what Qelaj forgot to mention to Jonathan Steele was the trilfing fact that Remi's men had to shoot 80 civilians who refused to be expelled. This was reported in a BBC TV report aired in March 2000.

Sometime in late April, in the north of the Llap region, the KLA urged another crowd hiding from the bombing and numbering almost 60,000 to leave for Macedonia and Albania according to Qelaj.

In Remi's zone of operations alone, the KLA expelled 220,000 Albanians. This is keeping with the pattern Remi established prior to the bombing. Albanians were only worthy of decent treatment if they were actively supporting the KLA. Those who stood on the sidelines were to be used for propaganda purposes or worse.

[vooch]

this was orginally posted to FR a while back, but since GWB has gotten Kfor to arrest Remi........thought it would be timely.

[Andy from Beaverton]

Are they going to go to Macedonia?

[vooch]

cute, but the 160,000 civilians whom Remi expelled from his ZO appear to be the same ones who showed up in Pristina a few days later en mass. To stave off a humanitarian disaster, the authorities moved people on passenger trains away from Clinton's bombs.

just ask people who've met Remi, they describe him as a psycho.....

[Wm Bach]

I'm sure glad Clinton involved the U.S. on the right
side of that squabble. I mean, where would we be today
if we didn't give the KLA free reign?

[vooch]

The KLA forced their people out at gunpoint. Those stragglers who refused appear to have been shot by KLA.

A few months ago Kfor arrested Remi's entire staff........for the crime of murdering Albanian women and children. Remi was arrested just a few weeks ago.

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[vooch]

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[redhawk]

If the KLA can do this, why can't Israel start deporting
the Pali's?

[vooch]

As horrible as this sounds, the KLA did this as a agit-prop stunt. It fooled a few people at the time, but thereafter the KLA was recognized as a criminal group of bloodthirsty killers.

One doubts the IDF wishes to be associated with the KLA in people's minds

[vooch]

well you asked for citations, here they are.......BBC and two mainstream English papers........220,000 just from MajorGeneral Remi's zone of operations. The KLA had 6 more ZO's.

[Wraith]

Well Vooch I believe the KLA deception has become more open to the world which became obvious to me in 1999. Do you know the story of the Winged Serbian Hussars?

[vooch]

welcome back......andy spent some time in the area also on official business.....consider this a introduction

[getoffmylawn]

Welcome back, Wraith. Tell me about the Winged Serbian Hussars please.

[Tamodaleko]

Winged Serbian Hussars???
If I may join the audience?

[Wraith]

The Winged Serbian Hussars were mercenaries that fought against the Tartars during the 1500s. They made their abilities known during the battle of Kleck in 1506 at which point the Polish nobility took a very close notice of this success and decided to lighten their own Cavalry. They also adopted the wings i.e. the Polish Winged Hussars. The Serbs used the wings to identify themselves in combat against the Turks but wore the wings in order to prevent from being lassoed by the Tartars who were experts at doing this on horseback. The Serbs were truly at the front line defending Christendom against the invading Turks which brought to light the Sebian Winged Hussars.

[getoffmylawn]

That's pretty interesting. I'm gonna try to search the web and see if there's any pictures of these winged cats.

Be careful. The Serbs have a very romantic history, especially when it comes to the warrior stuff. You start digging too deep into it and you risk being converted to their cause :-)

[vooch]

very interesting, just the sort of item to spark another FR's imangination..........Gael have your ever heard of these winged hussars of the 16th c. ?

[Gael]

It's a new one for me. It sounds like a fascinating story -- I'll have to see whether there are any books or articles on it. Of course, some killjoy will claim that the Winged Hussars were the inspiration for the flying monkeys in "Wizard of Oz".